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Worked at a Tier 2 firm (no points for guessing, rhymes with ▮▮▮).
I cannot imagine I spend 2.5 years at a place where the person at the top genuinely believed shouting was a form of leadership. He’s known to blow up at junior associates — over asking for leave during a family emergency. Yes, that actually happened. The junior association was humiliated in front of the entire office!
Empathy? Zero. Emotional intelligence? Non-existent. His default mode is condescension. If you dare question a decision — or simply express that you’d like to understand what’s happening to your role or your future — you're branded “difficult.” There’s no space for questions, no room for conversation. Just one person’s ego, stretched across an entire org chart.
And the worst part? Everyone enables it. HR won't intervene. She's a puppet. Other partners stay silent. Juniors just try to survive and not get noticed.
This kind of leadership doesn’t build teams. It breaks people. To anyone entering the profession: observe how seniors treat the most junior person in the room. That will tell you more about a firm than its name ever will.